MIDI Innovation Awards Winners Announced

US Second annual event results 19/07/22

The MIDI Association, Music Hackspace and NAMM have announced the winners of the second annual MIDI Innovation Awards. In a lively and fast-paced show hosted by BBC presenter LJ Rich, the MIDI Innovation Awards jury awarded innovators in five categories, who split a share of over $10,000 worth of prizes. Athan Billias, President of The MIDI Association, remarked, "MIDI continues to inspire new ideas in the developer community after almost 40 years. We are looking forward to the creativity sparked by MIDI 2.0."

Here's more, direct from the MIDI Association...

Category winners

Artistic installations

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet, by Irmandy Wicaksono

Synthesizer Live MIDI Art, by Gil Assayas

Leaf Secret, by Rich Thomsen

Software prototypes

MusiKraken, by Markus Ruh

PhotoSynth > Interface, by Zenon Olenski

DAWn Audio, by Diego Pinzon

Hardware prototypes

The Digi-Gurdy: A MIDI Hurdy Gurdy, by John Dingley

ProtoZOA, by AmeNote Inc

Knitted Keyboard, by Irmandy Wicaksono

Commercial software

Fluid Chords, by Krishna Chetan

GeoShred 5.9, by Pat Scandalis

Animoog Z, by Moog

Commercial hardware

SOMI-1, by Instruments of things

WIDI Core, by CME

Wind Synthesizer R1, by Robkoo

Find out more about the winners, as well as the judges at this link.

Following the success of the inaugural awards, preparations will be underway soon for 2023. If you've been inspired to learn more, register interest for 2023.